A test of Horava gravity: the dark energy

作者:Park Mu In*
来源:Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2010, (1): 001.
DOI:10.1088/1475-7516/2010/01/001

摘要

Recently Horava proposed a renormalizable gravity theory with higher spatial derivatives in four dimensions which reduces to Einstein gravity with anon-vanishing cosmological constant in IR but with improved UV behaviors. Here, I consider a non-trivial test of the new gravity theory in FRW universe by considering an IR modification which breaks "softly" the detailed balance condition in the original Horava model. I separate the dark energy parts from the usual Einstein gravity parts in the Friedman equations and obtain the formula of the equations of state parameter. The IR modified Horava gravity seems to be consistent with the current observational data but we need some more refined data sets to see whether the theory is really consistent with our universe. From the consistency of our theory, I obtain some constraints on the allowed values of w(0) and w(a) in the Chevallier, Polarski, and Linder's parametrization and this may be tested in the near future, by sharpening the data sets.

  • 出版日期2010-1